First draft excitement

Pretend you're interested for a moment while I share the excitement of having completed the first draft of Sunrise over Centrified City (the SF noir novel I began during NaNoWriMo). I wrote the final scene this evening and am now bathed in mild elation tinged with regret. The thing about finishing a long piece is, you have to leave behind some characters you've come to know deeply. Although as OneMonkey pointed out, it won't be for long - I'll need to start typing up (having written it longhand) and then re-drafting in a couple of months. In the meantime I'm marvelling at the accessibility of this achievement. In January I worked on the novel on only 3 Sundays and a Saturday, and produced a total of 10,000 words. Doesn't that sound so easy to fit around other commitments and general life stuff? I don't know whether to be inspired, or disappointed that I don't manage this kind of output more often. However I end up feeling about it, this is only the beginning. The real work begins when I start plugging all the plot-holes with the rewrite, and I can see that taking me all the way to November and the next NaNoWriMo.